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New HP Laptop

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My daughter has been using a sweet little CF-T2 for the last year and a half for school and other things (email and web surfing), but finally the very limited 1.1ghz processor and 768mb max memory got to where it couldn't keep up with the software she needs to use.
So off we went on Saturday to BestBuy to see what what was available and new. (flashy)
We looked at the Dells :reallysad: , the MacBook :eek: $$$$ ,Toshibas :rolleyes: and fnially the HPs.
Being a Toughbook guy, all I can say is I was quite impressed.....
She finally ended up choosing the HP - Pavilion dv3-2155mx.
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor, 4GB ram, 500GB hard drive, LED back lit screen, Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW drive and still weighs less then most of the other full featured laptops (5.5 lbs.)
It seems sturdier then most of the other brands we looked at, and it has some nice features.
The 9 cell battery is a big plus (5-1/2 to 7 hours between charges), Very good sound (for a laptop), a nice almost full sized keyboard, and lastly it has some style that most of the others lacked. (Her being a girl this was close to the top of her want list).
She is still working to learn Vista and to take the bloatware off but she likes it and it should serve her needs very well.
Now it's off to put the little CF-T2 up on ebay and get back some of the $$$ she spent... :)

Bob

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Re: New HP Laptop

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Bob
Did HP have the free upgrade for windows 7 ? My girlfriend has Vista on her Dell Studio 17" but when she say windows 7 on my XPS 1710 I had to preorder 2 windows 7 because she finds it much better and " so cool ".
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Re: New HP Laptop

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Yes a free upgrade to Windows7 was included .
So I guess we are happy.

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Thank god it didn't have that stupid AMD Turion X2 in it... (especially the 17" models)... I've seen about 987698695 of them come through my office and about 987698694 of them had bad mobo's after about a year to a year and a half!!!!! :damnit: :damnit: :damnit:
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Re: New HP Laptop

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I used to run AMP CPUs in my desktops and they ran well but they did run pretty hot.
After the third or forth motherboard failure I came back Intel.
I will stay with Intel.. :cheers:

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Re: New HP Laptop

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Yes same here
Loved to run amd processers years ago when desktops were 800 to 1000 speed range
Intel had some serious problems with their processers before they came out with the socket 478,and amd was way cheaper
Amd gave intel some serious compitition in those days
But I like the stability of the intel mainboard chips ,they have been rock solid reliable

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I rocked out AMD Athlons, Durons and Athlon XP's (all the way up to the 2.2GHz 3200+) then I switched to laptops and hence I started with Centrino's...

The old school AMD's just couldn't be beat in price and speed!
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